Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker

Single Homeless Project; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary review after probation

37.5 hour working week core hours 10am

25 days annual leave (max 30 + bank)

5% pension contribution

Health cash plan & discounts

Training programme

Job summary

Single Homeless Project in Camden, London, is seeking a Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker for a full-time, permanent role. Salary starts at £32,034.46 and rises to £35,081.51 per annum, with a comprehensive benefits package.

You will provide skilled, trauma-informed support to women experiencing homelessness, domestic abuse, trauma, substance use and related challenges. The role emphasizes advocacy, complex casework and multi-agency collaboration to improve outcomes for women.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting women facing multiple disadvantage and understanding overlap with trauma, abuse, homelessness and mental health.
• Ability to build trust with women who have been let down by services.
• Demonstrated patience, honesty and consistency when working with clients.

Responsibilities

• Build trusting relationships with women facing multiple disadvantage.
• Manage complex casework and advocate on behalf of clients.
• Assist women in navigating services and systems that can be difficult to access.
• Contribute to multi-agency discussions to keep women’s voices central.
• Support ongoing learning and development through supervision and reflective practice.

Skills

Trauma-informed

Advocacy

Relationship building

Risk assessment

Reflective practice

Job description

Single Homeless Project has a new opportunity for a Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker to join and work in our team based in Camden, London. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary starting at £32,034.46 and rising incrementally to £35,081.51 per annum??????.

About The Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker Role

For women facing multiple disadvantage, the right support can be the difference between remaining trapped by systems and beginning to rebuild safety, choice and control.

As our Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker at Grace House, you’ll provide skilled, persistent and compassionate support to women whose experiences may include homelessness, domestic abuse, trauma, substance use, poor mental health and contact with the criminal justice system.

Using a gender and trauma-informed approach, you’ll build trusting relationships and work alongside women at their own pace. You’ll manage complex casework, advocate firmly on their behalf and help navigate services and systems that can often feel fragmented or difficult to access. You’ll use creativity, professional judgement and tenacity to challenge barriers and help women move forward on their own terms.

You’ll also bring your expertise into multi-agency discussions, ensuring women’s voices, experiences and priorities remain central to the decisions made about their support. Working closely with colleagues and external partners, you’ll help shape responsive, coordinated support and contribute to the continued development of practice across Grace House.

This is an opportunity to deepen your specialist skills, take real ownership of your work and make a visible difference in women’s lives. You’ll be supported by an experienced team, reflective practice and ongoing learning and development at Single Homeless Project (SHP), giving you the tools and confidence to grow while delivering support that genuinely changes lives.

• For genuine occupational requirement reasons, we are seeking applications from women only for this post (exemption under the Equality Act 2010; Schedule 9 Part 1).

About You As Our Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker

You know how to build trust with women who may have been let down by services before, working with patience, honesty and consistency.

You bring strong experience of supporting women facing multiple disadvantage and understand how trauma, abuse, homelessness, poor mental health and substance use can overlap.

You stay calm when situations are complex, using sound judgement to assess risk, make decisions and keep support moving forward.

You are a determined advocate who will challenge barriers, bring partners together and keep pushing when systems are not responding.

You are reflective, curious and ready to deepen your specialist practice, with support, supervision and development opportunities at SHP.

Our Attractive Benefits Package Includes

• A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays)
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

Important Information

Applications will be reviewed and suitable candidates invited to interview online as they are received. Therefore, please submit your application as soon as possible to be considered. We reserve the right to close the vacancy as soon as a suitable candidate is identified.

Please note there will be a second stage interview in service in Camden for suitable candidates.

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed (by SHP) for the successful applicant.

Please note applications are reviewed for AI use in application questions. Applications with insufficient right to work or requiring sponsorship will not be accepted for this role.

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited